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From: sundar@ai.mit.edu (Sundar Narasimhan)
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Subject: function keys in xterm's vt100 (vt102?) emulation
Keywords: function keys
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Date: 17 Feb 91 23:08:22 GMT
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Hi: I tried sending this once before, but the attempt seems to have 
failed. (Apologies if you get to see the foll. twice).

I have a program that expects to be run from a vt100. I'd like to
be able to run it from an xterm (on a sparc running SunOS 4.1 and X11R4).
The program expects vt100 function keys (PF2, PF3 etc) to be used.
Unfortunately, no matter what escape sequence I try typing, I can
never get the program to respond correctly. So my question is:
is the xterm emulation of vt100 (vt102) complete? If so, what does
one need to do in order to get the vt100 function keys typed in?
(BTW, on perusing the code I see that xterm just inserts the ascii 
string "13~" when I type F3 on my keyboard. Could someone explain
to me how this is supposed to work?)

Thanks.